Priya DasSarma

Halo-Ed Team Leader

Microbiologist and educator

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Priya DasSarma is a Senior Research Investigator at Blue Marble Space Institute of Science and a collaborator at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. She was educated in medicine at the University of Vienna Medical School and microbiology the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has considerable professional accomplishments as a research microbiologist, with 85 published articles and an H-index of 34. She also has a certification to teach biology and has taught at the high school, college, and university levels. Additionally, she is well-known for designing the Making Microbiology Manageable teaching modules based on the Haloarchaeon, Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 for more, see the Halo-Ed Education & Outreach resources on the DasSarma Group Virtual Lab Portal, Halo-Ed.org. When she is not doing research, teaching, or mentoring, she enjoys vegetarian cooking, gardening, and reading.

 

 

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Left: Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 colonies containing buoyant GVNP nanoparticles (pink) or lacking them (orange). See American Biology Teacher article for details.

 

 

Right: Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 cells containing the buoyant GVNPs used for flotation. For details on their biotechnology applications, see review in Vaccines.

 

          

 

·      Halobacteria: Making Microbiology Manageable (Carolina Biological Supply)

·      Check out her family-recipe in Celebrating Diwali with light and sweets (Baltimore Sun)

·      Illustrations in Tales from a Faraway Land: Indian Children's Stories

·      New approach toward a broad spectrum malaria vaccine (Science Daily)

·      How Stratospheric Life Is Teaching Us About the Possibility of Extreme Life on Other Worlds

·      IMET: Evolution & Survival of Ancient Microbes Public Lecture with Professor Shiladitya DasSarma and Victoria Laye.

·      How Microbes Thrive in Harsh Environments

·      Scientists identify key factors that help microbes thrive in harsh environments

·      Strategies for possible survival on Mars: Scientists found differences in core proteins from a microorganism that lives in a salty lake in Antarctica (ScienceDaily)

·      Earth used to be purple, new NASA study shows (BigThink)

·      Presence of microbial life in our stratosphere teaches us about the possibility of life on other worlds (Cosmic News)

·      Can Microbes Survive Multiple Trips into the Stratosphere? (EOS)

·      Bacteria Floating 30,000 Feet Overhead Could Be Influencing the Weather (Gizmodo)

·      Scientifically Speaking: Exploring the microbial frontier (blog)

·      Campaigning for Climate Action

·      Haloarchaea: Potential for space travel | LAS 2022 (video)

·      World Space Week 2023 Panel Discussion Astrobiology Journeys: Diverse Paths, Shared Passions

·      Patents

·      inSTEM: Self-Advocacy (video)

 

 

 

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